As a relatively new user to Home Assistant I find the notification icon to be quite busy. Urgent issues are intermingled with optional or informational issues. For me this leads to a devaluing of the notification button as a useful information source, as I’ve come to distrust it’s presence as something that warrants my attention.
Has anyone else found a way to deal with this? Ideally I’d like is to have separate notification channels for urgent issues and another for less time-sensitive issues. Ideally with the user being able to configure where notifications get classified to.
I have some some initial forum and web searches hoping someone else has been working on this, but found nothing so far. Surely I can’t be the only one bothered by this, though.
What are you using them for? I’ve had mine setup for over a year and I am only now considering setting up notifications. You might be able to just delete a lot of them.
System logging non urgent system decisions and why they were made. e.g. irrigation turned on, automatic climate adjustments, automatic backup pass/fail, updates available, etc…
General garbage reminders, energy use, etc…
All of these message groups are set up to delete messages older than 1 month. As the system admin only I see the first two groups. Everyone gets the General group.
I also use the Compaion App critical alerts for smoke, water leak and security alarm triggers. This is because it can interrupt do not disturb mode. Telegram cant do this.
You can create separate notification channels and handle them differently on your device, as well as change the icon. I have a number of channels I use, but I mostly treat all of them the same (with a few exceptions such as a fire, break-in or water leak).
I’m referring to the notifications which appear when using the Home Assistant front-end in the browser. Apologies for not making this clear.
Because a large portion of the notifications I get are low-urgency, I have been “trained” to mostly ignore the notification system at all. So I do delete a lot of them, but this has caused me to be “trained” by HA that their notifications are low-value.
I phrased my question poorly, as I was focused on the notification bell icon inside the Home Assistant web front-end.
However this solution does address the root motivation of my problem – being able to surface priority events in a notification channel that can be high-signal. Not exactly what I want, but in some ways better than what I wanted. Thanks